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Empowering tactical system makes you feel completely in control, Diverse array of playstyles and challenges offered by the variety of individual units and flexibility of squads, Clean and effective audiovisual design, Highly replayable

Empowering tactical system makes you feel completely in control, Diverse array of playstyles and challenges offered by the variety of individual units and flexibility of squads, Clean and effective audiovisual design, Highly replayable

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Into the Breach shows that strategy games don’t need to do anything new because they can create some of the most memorable gaming experiences to be had if done correctly. Into the Breach is a game that is being played even when away from the computer, because it can’t help but fill the mind with possibility.

Into the Breach demands concentration and lateral thinking, and some players may balk at the painful sacrifices that become necessary at higher difficulties, and how they arise from random factors of unit placement. Others may struggle at the necessity of such deliberate planning on each turn. But those are less faults of the game, and more variations in player taste.

Post-apocalyptic chess with time travel, collapsing worlds and tanks the size of skyscrapers: any summary of Into the Breach makes it sound like the most over-complicated game in the world. But remarkably, this lunch break-friendly and charmingly chunky...

By Dan Stapleton Feb. 27, 20189A lot of tactical depth can happen on a simple eight-by-eight grid. Into The Breach, the follow-up to the legendary FTL: Faster Than Light from Subset Games, creates a fantastic variety of turn-based tactical battles...

In 2012, Subset Games released FTL --a strategy roguelite whose best moments were when everything worked like a well-oiled machine, but also when you were frantically trying to adapt to dangerous, unexpected situations in the spur of the moment. Into...

The wide variety of mech and pilot abilities make Into The Breach's tactical combat deep, satisfying, and replayable. Every turn creates a new complex puzzle, and though sometimes there's no perfect solution, finding the best way to minimize damage...

The first couple of hours with Into the Breach feels like a death by a thousand cuts.At first, Into the Breach offers up only constant failure. Battles will be won but will cost you ever increasing amounts. The insectoid Vek can be fought back for...

It's very good. Addictive, too. I love other turn-based games, be it XCOM or Civilization or Endless Space, but traditionally the genre is a time-sink. You can't just “drop in” to XCOM for a night. You start a game knowing it's going to take 20 or 30...